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Some sociologists and anthropologists consider the extended family structure to be the most common family structure in most cultures and at most times, rather than the nuclear family. [1] [2] The term nuclear family was popularized in the 20th century. Since that time, the number of North American nuclear families is gradually decreasing, while ...
The nuclear family consists of a mother, father, and the children. The two-parent nuclear family has become less prevalent, and pre-American and European family forms have become more common. [2] Beginning in the 1970s in the United States, the structure of the "traditional" nuclear American family began to change.
In neolocal residence, newly formed couples form their own separate household units, and create what is considered a nuclear family. This contrasts with other forms of post-marital residence, such as patrilocal residence and matrilocal residence, in which the couple resides with or near the husband's family (patrilocal residence) or the wife's family (matrilocal residence).
The term "family values" is often used in political discourse in some countries, its general meaning being that of traditional or cultural values that pertain to the family's structure, function, roles, beliefs, attitudes, and ideals, usually involving the "traditional family"—a middle-class family with a breadwinner father and a homemaker ...
This understanding of family values does not promote conservative morality, instead focusing on encouraging and supporting alternative family structures, access to contraception and abortion, increasing the minimum wage, sex education, childcare, and parent-friendly employment laws, which provide for maternity leave and leave for medical ...
Post-industrial families became more private, nuclear, domestic and based on the emotional bonding between husband and wife, and between parents and children. [37] Historian Lawrence Stone identifies three major types of family structure in England: in about 1450–1630, the open lineage family dominated. The Renaissance era, 1550–1700 ...
In 1992, 47% of African-American families had a nuclear family in comparison to 54% of all US nuclear families. [35] The African-American simple nuclear family structure has been defined as a married couple with children. [32] This is the traditional norm for the composition of African-American families. [36]
A study of 1880 family structure in Philadelphia shows that three-quarters of Black families were nuclear families, composed of two parents and children. [2] In New York City in 1925, 85 percent of kin-related Black households had two parents. [2] In 1940, the illegitimacy rate for Black children was 19 percent. [2]